Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aqauwomen are going to beat Yale, they'll need to continue the dominance they displayed in diving last night. The squad swept the one-meter competition and placed first and second in the three-meter event as freshman Jennifer Goldberg walked away with the laurels from both the high and low board competitions. Goldberg captured the pool record held by Crimson co-captain Pam Stone, who set it two years ago. Teammates Cathy Josman and Stone, the second and third finishers, ended up shattering the old record as well...
...submerging the closest thing it has to a rival, the Crimson claimed ten of 13 first-place finishes. More fatal to the Tigers, the acumen swept up second place in seven of those ten events in a display of bottomless depth...
...lead was short lived, as Tiger swimmers swept the 200 backstroke, and Tiedemann took first in the 200 breaststroke...
...week, guests at the President's table, including F.D.R.'s son Jimmy, ate off china from the Roosevelt years. In a deft tribute, Reagan recalled his first glimpse of F.D.R. "It was 1936, a campaign parade in Des Moines, Iowa. What a wave of affection and pride swept through the crowd." Reagan obliquely compared Roosevelt with himself; he praised the American ability to "sense when things have gone too far, when the time has come to make fundamental changes. Franklin Roosevelt was that kind of a person too." The President then led a toast to "one of history...
Harvard's depth proved the deciding factor, however. Relying on the experience of their veterans, the racquet women swept the remaining matches without surrendering a game to nail down...